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it's not all bad news for governor romney. in florida, if you look at older voters, they tend to be more reliable. these are voters 50 and older. 54% support governor romney on taxes and 42% for president obama. so jobs is a number one, but taxes a subset, at the moment, advantage to the president. >> governor romney has been criticized for not laying out enough specifics in the tax plan, particularly what loopholes he would close to cut taxes for the wealthy by 20%. how has the campaign been responding to that? >> mitt romney has suggested on a number of occasions that he would limit some of the mortgage deductions nor high end earners and close some loopholes, but he's not specified as to how he would exactly do all of that. so you're right, he has said these things and his campaign has not filled in the blanks. over the weekend, paul ryan said something interesting. he gave unexplanation, that is they want to do to the congress in a romney administration and present a frame work for lawmakers to come up with a plan to adher
it's not all bad news for governor romney. in florida, if you look at older voters, they tend to be more reliable. these are voters 50 and older. 54% support governor romney on taxes and 42% for president obama. so jobs is a number one, but taxes a subset, at the moment, advantage to the president. >> governor romney has been criticized for not laying out enough specifics in the tax plan, particularly what loopholes he would close to cut taxes for the wealthy by 20%. how has the campaign...
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deficits into commanding romney leads. the idea behind is it simple. all polls base the outcome on what pollsters believe the electorate will look like, how many democrats versus how many republicans they think will actually turn out. getting that partisan makeup wrong can tilt the predictions. the people that don't believe the polls say this time, pollsters think the 2012 electorate will look a lot like 2008 and this they say is wrong. notice i said this time. back in 2004, democrats complained that the polls which showed george w. bush leading were overestimating the number of republicans who would vote. they were wrong. the polls were right. in 2000, al gore said don't believe the polls, polls showed him losing narrowly. polls were right. in fact, it's hard to find an example of the polls on average getting it wrong unless you go back to 1948, when they predicted thomas dewey defeated president harry truman. cnn political contributor ari fleischer joins us. he's an occasionally unpaid communications advisor for the romn
deficits into commanding romney leads. the idea behind is it simple. all polls base the outcome on what pollsters believe the electorate will look like, how many democrats versus how many republicans they think will actually turn out. getting that partisan makeup wrong can tilt the predictions. the people that don't believe the polls say this time, pollsters think the 2012 electorate will look a lot like 2008 and this they say is wrong. notice i said this time. back in 2004, democrats...
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also, governor romney. we'll bring it to you live when it happens. >>> you're looking at a live shot of the rally in des moines where president obama just moments from now will wrap up the last campaign of his political career. he'll spend election day tomorrow in chicago, playing basketball of other things as we just learned. michelle obama is with him in des moines, so is bruce springsteen. it is the third state they visited today. we're waiting for president obama to take the stage any moment. we'll bring that to you live. as well as governor romney when he takes the stage at his rally tonight. voter turnout could be affected by the states hit hardest by the storm sandy. one week ago tonight, sandy knocked out power in the northeast. about a million people in the region are still waiting for power. thousands have been displaced from their homes. probably tens of thousands. the loss and damage sandy left in its wake is immense. its affects still unfolding. tomorrow, secretary of homeland security janet na
also, governor romney. we'll bring it to you live when it happens. >>> you're looking at a live shot of the rally in des moines where president obama just moments from now will wrap up the last campaign of his political career. he'll spend election day tomorrow in chicago, playing basketball of other things as we just learned. michelle obama is with him in des moines, so is bruce springsteen. it is the third state they visited today. we're waiting for president obama to take the stage...
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it became an issue with romney taking strong exception to a spanish language ad by gingrich calling romney the most anti-immigrant candidate. >> is he still the most anti-immigrant? >> i think so. >> senator rubio came to my defense. i'm not anti-imgrnlt. my father was born in mexico. my wife's father was born in wales, they came to this country. i'm glak that marco rubio called you out on it, i think you should apologize for it. >> romney is running a spanish ad of his own accusing gingrich of calling spanish the language of the ghetto. he didn't mention spanish by nade name. romney said he wasn't aware of the ad, his own ad. a few minutes later, wolf set the record straight. >> we did double check, that governor we talked about where i quoted you as saying gingrich called spanish the language of the ghetto. it is one of your ads. it's running here on florida and in the radio, and at the end, you say i'm mitt romney and i approve this ad. >> let me ask a question. >> he asked whether or not gingrich in fact did say that and said we should check the record. we did. john, gloria, david, ari
it became an issue with romney taking strong exception to a spanish language ad by gingrich calling romney the most anti-immigrant candidate. >> is he still the most anti-immigrant? >> i think so. >> senator rubio came to my defense. i'm not anti-imgrnlt. my father was born in mexico. my wife's father was born in wales, they came to this country. i'm glak that marco rubio called you out on it, i think you should apologize for it. >> romney is running a spanish ad of his...
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about romney. they'll go back to basics. >> balpaul do you agree with th? >> mitt missed the opportunity. david's point was important, the number one thing is someone who can defeat obama. i think the definition is shifting. in new hampshire, they saw it as mitt romney, but they like the fire, the bombast, the aggressiveness of newt gingrich. at least the newt gingrich we saw in south carolina. that's why the debate in jackson rl is going to be critical. if i was with romney i would say, they like all that stuff. >> it's that kind of anger, though, that can sometimes really end up kind of aggravating voters who don't node meringue ee anger in their. >> costly in the general, but in the primary, they seem to want it. >> you saw gingrich pull back in the debate the other night because being as angry as he has been, and we'll see what he does thursday night with wolf because the anger kind of rallies the base, but it also can be unappealing, particularly when you see someone like barack obama. who is
about romney. they'll go back to basics. >> balpaul do you agree with th? >> mitt missed the opportunity. david's point was important, the number one thing is someone who can defeat obama. i think the definition is shifting. in new hampshire, they saw it as mitt romney, but they like the fire, the bombast, the aggressiveness of newt gingrich. at least the newt gingrich we saw in south carolina. that's why the debate in jackson rl is going to be critical. if i was with romney i would...
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romney when asked specifics wednesday night. president obama may get tough questions about how the white house has handled the aftermath of the libya killings. listen to senior campaign advisor david axelrod on "state of the union" with candy crowley. >> the president called it an act of terror the day after it happened but when you're the responsible party, when you're the administration, you have a responsibility to act on what you know and what the intelligence community believes. this is being thoroughly investigated. >> he's saying president obama as early as the morning after the attacks in benghazi identified the killings as an act of terror. in that rose garden speech that he's referring to, however, the president only mentions the word terror once, and it wasn't until the end of that speech. also, it comes after the president speaks in broad terms, mentioning 9/11 and the wars in iraq and afghanistan. you can decide for yourself if his one use of that word terror is directly defining what happened in benghazi. listen. >
romney when asked specifics wednesday night. president obama may get tough questions about how the white house has handled the aftermath of the libya killings. listen to senior campaign advisor david axelrod on "state of the union" with candy crowley. >> the president called it an act of terror the day after it happened but when you're the responsible party, when you're the administration, you have a responsibility to act on what you know and what the intelligence community...
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governor romney is the challenger. he has to step across the commander in chief threshold, if you will, on a number of issues. how much time does he want to spend around the world and how much does he want to try to narrow in to get some advantage out of benghazi? >> well, it's not to get advantage out of benghazi, john. but the fact of the matter is, benghazi was the first successful terrorist attack on our country since september 11th, 2001. and we as a country have an obligation to figure out how and why it happened. after all, our embassies and our consulates around the world are built like forts. they're built like forts because we know they're targets. how in the case of benghazi was america struck? there were security failures, there were blunders made. who, why, how. all of this is vital to making sure we learn so it doesn't happen again. now, in the handling of it and the explanation for it, this administration was terribly ham-handed. it really looked to me as if for political reasons they did not want to ind
governor romney is the challenger. he has to step across the commander in chief threshold, if you will, on a number of issues. how much time does he want to spend around the world and how much does he want to try to narrow in to get some advantage out of benghazi? >> well, it's not to get advantage out of benghazi, john. but the fact of the matter is, benghazi was the first successful terrorist attack on our country since september 11th, 2001. and we as a country have an obligation to...
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governor romney would take a different approach. he would repeal those protections. >> you're not answering the question. i'm trying to figure out what's different between bain an the experience of private equity firms the president is taking money from. >> we never got a question for that. hopefully we'll get answers from james carville and ari fleischer. president obama said this is not a distraction, it's going to be the center piece of the campaign, the attacks on mitt romney's record at bain and what that means, how he would govern as president. is that smart for him to double down on this, james? >> well, yeah. understand. what happened here is romney made his experience at bain central to his candidacy. he said he created jobs. he never talked about being governor of massachusetts or anything else. of course it's not an attack on private equity. it's an attack on what romney said he did. and other things happened there. i don't even understand the whining about this. romney's a man who has resources. go find people whose job
governor romney would take a different approach. he would repeal those protections. >> you're not answering the question. i'm trying to figure out what's different between bain an the experience of private equity firms the president is taking money from. >> we never got a question for that. hopefully we'll get answers from james carville and ari fleischer. president obama said this is not a distraction, it's going to be the center piece of the campaign, the attacks on mitt romney's...
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isn't romney's record fair game? >> i hope they continue to go after bain and i hope they do it through november because i have a feeling it will continue to backfire. i think that's one of the reasons so many democrats are uneasy with the attacks. and certainly when you look what mitt romney said, he actually has said very balanced statement. he said some of the investments made were successful and made money and created jobs. others didn't. >> he said 100,000 jobs -- >> romney has made that balanced statement about it. and what's really wrong about the ads while it's certainly fair game to talk about what people did in their living, he have gone from bain. he was gone from both the companies that they have attacked him for years before the companies went bankrupt. so even if you think bankruptcy in itself is disqualifying in the private sector, mitt romney was no longer part of the company. >> but ari, he said he helped to create 100,000 jobs and that math is kind of fuzzy. he does walk away from things at bain tha
isn't romney's record fair game? >> i hope they continue to go after bain and i hope they do it through november because i have a feeling it will continue to backfire. i think that's one of the reasons so many democrats are uneasy with the attacks. and certainly when you look what mitt romney said, he actually has said very balanced statement. he said some of the investments made were successful and made money and created jobs. others didn't. >> he said 100,000 jobs -- >>...
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disappointing numbers for romney. here's the question, throughout this process, is he emerging as a weaker or stronger candidate? >> i'll answer that in just a second. first, this saddens me, wolf, when people talk about americans being radicals. we can have political differences left and right, conservative or liberal, i don't call anybody a radical on left. i never used that for barack obama. we're a country that's starting to fray at the seams instead of coming together. we should be cautious of the words we use. >> let me let cornell respond to that. you want to respond to that? >> i responded to him. so we're even. >> well, you know, when you look at some of the policies that are being put forth by ryan plan, that really does away with medicare as we know it, something that our seniors have been looking, depending on for years. i would argue that's radical when you try to give powerback to wall street to write their own rules and do the exact same things that got us into that mess. some of us say that's radical.
disappointing numbers for romney. here's the question, throughout this process, is he emerging as a weaker or stronger candidate? >> i'll answer that in just a second. first, this saddens me, wolf, when people talk about americans being radicals. we can have political differences left and right, conservative or liberal, i don't call anybody a radical on left. i never used that for barack obama. we're a country that's starting to fray at the seams instead of coming together. we should be...
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the other was romney's taxzs. romney flailed around tonight. he knew the attack was coming. newt gingrich knew the attack was coming and made it an attack on the media, had the crowd applauding, they booed romney on the tax issue. >> do you think that open, the fiery moment in the debate, maybe won it for gingrich in south carolina? >> every candidate had good points tonight. there were good peaks and good valleys for all of the candidates. rick santorum probably gave out the best attack on gingrich. it's the one every behind the scenes had been whispering around, but gingrich had a good comeback and closed well on romney ffs taxes. all people are going to talk about is taxes, immigration, and gingrich's open, and that's all going to benefit him. >> the question was about gingrich's stability or riskiness. let's play that. >> grandiosity has never been a problem with newt gingrich. he handles it very, very well. that's one of the issues here, folks. a month ago, he was saying, oh, it's inevitable i'm going to win the election and i'm destined to do it. i don't want a nominee
the other was romney's taxzs. romney flailed around tonight. he knew the attack was coming. newt gingrich knew the attack was coming and made it an attack on the media, had the crowd applauding, they booed romney on the tax issue. >> do you think that open, the fiery moment in the debate, maybe won it for gingrich in south carolina? >> every candidate had good points tonight. there were good peaks and good valleys for all of the candidates. rick santorum probably gave out the best...
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versus romney. >> totally obama versus romney. what was so interesting it me was that mitt romney's speech after wisconsin, he started talking about president obama as being out of touch. he said he was surrounded by true believers and it's easy when you travel around on air force one. you heard joe biden say and david axelrod that mitt romney is the one that is out of touch. we teed up one part of the argument that who is the person who is more out of touch with real americans and with the middle class? i think that's the beginning of another argument. >> it's fair to say the president for the next several months will try to take the high road and leave the attack dog to biden. >> he wants that presidential aura about him. that resonates with a lot of people. >> the sledge hammer and you suck it in today. you will also use the humor. that fits better. he relishes a fight. >> what did you think. he is eager for this battle because you know and demonizes that the president is now ready to defend and
versus romney. >> totally obama versus romney. what was so interesting it me was that mitt romney's speech after wisconsin, he started talking about president obama as being out of touch. he said he was surrounded by true believers and it's easy when you travel around on air force one. you heard joe biden say and david axelrod that mitt romney is the one that is out of touch. we teed up one part of the argument that who is the person who is more out of touch with real americans and with...
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likely that ann romney will introduce governor romney. that's what she has been doing of late. obviously women a key constituency they are trying to reach out to. ann romney has been playing an increasingly visible role in the campaign in the last few weeks and months really on the campaign trail. let's listen in. >> it's so good to be here. oh. new hampshire, it's good to be here. it was just a little over a year ago that mitt and i sat down in our living room and talked about this campaign. i'll admit i was hesitant. four years ago we'd been through a tough primary and i told him i would never do this again. i was pretty emphatic. and i was pretty certain. but mitt reminded me that i said that after every pregnancy. you know, i have five sons, so that didn't work out so well. but i knew our country was in real trouble. and i knew we needed real leadership to turn things around. so i asked mitt one simple question. can you fix it? he said yes, and that's all i needed to know. i said -- i said if you can fix it, then we need to do this. and we launched this campaign a few month
likely that ann romney will introduce governor romney. that's what she has been doing of late. obviously women a key constituency they are trying to reach out to. ann romney has been playing an increasingly visible role in the campaign in the last few weeks and months really on the campaign trail. let's listen in. >> it's so good to be here. oh. new hampshire, it's good to be here. it was just a little over a year ago that mitt and i sat down in our living room and talked about this...
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a big night for mitt romney. he moved a giant step closer to becoming the republican nominee tonight. primaries were held in five states in the northeast. he's not yet captured the 1,144 delegates needed to officially clench the gop nomination. he moved much closer tonight. the speech was titled a better america begins tonight and he pointedly called the president a disappointment and said the presidency has failed. here's more of his remarks. >> for every single mom who feels heart broken when she has to explain to her kids that she needs to take a second job and won't be home as often, for grandparents who can't afford the gas to visit their grandchildren anymore, for the mom and dad who never thought they'd be on food stamps, for the small business owner, desperately cutting back just to keep the doors open one more month. to all of the thousands of good and decent americans i have met who want nothing more than a better chance, a fighting chance, to all of you, i have a simple message. hold an a little longer
a big night for mitt romney. he moved a giant step closer to becoming the republican nominee tonight. primaries were held in five states in the northeast. he's not yet captured the 1,144 delegates needed to officially clench the gop nomination. he moved much closer tonight. the speech was titled a better america begins tonight and he pointedly called the president a disappointment and said the presidency has failed. here's more of his remarks. >> for every single mom who feels heart...
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but attacking mitt romney over it when it's not what mitt romney said. it was so unnecessary, anderson. my point is it's revealing about president obama's character. when he ran in 2008 as the post-partisan as someone who would bring us together. there is nothing post-partisan about him. if there's ever an occasion, it is the anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden. he had everything to bring us together but he chose to split us once more. >> do you buy the enhanced technique it is what critics called torture is what led to the killing of bin laden? >> i'm no expert and nor is fleischer. i did look up what one expert says at least. mark fallon who is a former special agent in charge of criminal investigation task force at guantanamo bay he said some event in water boarding years ago led to this is a disservice to our service members. a whole lot of experts. this is for the experts. the experts say that's not the case. by the way they were water boarding under bush and they did not get bin laden. those are two facts we know. bush stopped the water b
but attacking mitt romney over it when it's not what mitt romney said. it was so unnecessary, anderson. my point is it's revealing about president obama's character. when he ran in 2008 as the post-partisan as someone who would bring us together. there is nothing post-partisan about him. if there's ever an occasion, it is the anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden. he had everything to bring us together but he chose to split us once more. >> do you buy the enhanced technique it is...